Michael mathes



- UNH D STATES PATENT @rrrce.

MICHAEL MATE-IE5, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GUSTAV STEUP, OE SAME PLACE SlLlCATED' PAINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,450, dated January 9, 1883,

Application filed September 521, 1882. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MICHAEL MA'rnEs, of Jersey City, Hudson county, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Im- 5 provenient in billeuted Paints, of which the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a new body for paint, in which no oil is used, and which is very cheap. The paint maybe used on houses,

fences, stone walls, and similar art cles.

The invention consists of a compound of street-dust, gravel, granite, and lime. mixed in a particular proportion, so as to form a body- 1 puint readily dissolvahle in water, all as hereofslaked lime, which is thoroughly worked into the mixture.

1f the paint is applied to a stone wall, its surface should he inoisteuedafter application. On glass, iron, and wood it should be covered with a compound consisting of five parts of 0 .water and one part of water-glass.

It will he found that my improved paint is very cheap, will withstand atmospheric influence, and may be cleaned without coming off. Before use the body-paint is dissolved in water.

1 do not claim to have invented a composition of lime and a silicate, as that is shown in PatonlsN sASfliASfllli, and 48,747, granted to J. E. Van Derbnrgh, July 11, 1805'; but

1 (l0 claim- 1,0

The holly-point composed of thirty parts of street-dust, thirty parts of linely-pulverized gravel, twenty parts of finely-pulverized grunite, and twenty parts of slaked lime to form a composition which is dissolvahle in water he- 5 fore application, substantially as specified.

MICHAEL MATHES.

, Witnesses:

GUST; STEUP, 1 V. BRIESEN. 

